Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC commenting on the good impression which has been made in Germany and comparing the Germans to land crabs "if we advance, they retreat: if we retreat, they advance".

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he discusses the dissemination of news provided by him and encloses 12 copies of a German pamphlet [not present] about the Navy.

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC marked very private including a transcript of a piece by an anonymous author discussing the likelihood of war in Europe due to the precarious position of German industry and the actions of the Prussian Junker class and stressing the importance of making ready the British army and ensuring supplies of ammunition.

Copy of a telegram from WSC (22 St James' Place [London]) to [Lord] Northcliffe, [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private and personal thanking him for his help and asking him to try and secure favourable "German comments".

Copy of a letter from [Lord] Northcliffe, [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC marked private discussing the necessity of firmness in dealing with the Germans. He asserts that he has not been kind in judging WSC and that his newspapers do not take a Party view about Germany, the fleet and Canada, advises WSC to visit Canada and suggests that he should sign telegrams in a more discreet manner.

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC informing him that either he or Geoffrey Robinson will visit the Admiralty and criticising Foreign Office intervention with the press which he thinks will be interpreted in Germany as "fright".

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC marked private in which he informs him that he is holding back news about the German naval scheme [from his newspapers] at the request of the British Embassy, discusses the gravity of such a request and the government's mishandling of the press.

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC enclosing information about the manufacture of German Atlantic liners which is conducted under the supervision of the German Admiralty and which include features such as gun platforms. He also includes information about the likelihood that guns are on board the ships of the Lloyd and Hamburg-American line.

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC passing on a recommendation from an American associate that British ships should be equipped with vernadium steel protective deck plates which are used in German and Austrian ships.

Autobiography of [Frederick] Gerard Friedlander [Friedrich Gerhart Friedlander], 1917-35, on his early life, and his mother Ruth Fischer, founder of the Austrian Communist Party, a prominent member of the German Communist Party, and a member of the "left" or Trotskyite opposition to Stalin in the Soviet Union.

Album on CS’s visit to Germany as Secretary of State for War, to see British armed forces.

Schedule, briefings and notes for NK’s opening of a traffic control centre.

Programme and briefing on defence policy, including papers and press cuttings on the summit on arms control between the United States and Soviet Union at Geneva [Switzerland], 1985 and papers and press cuttings on the German Social Democratic Party, mainly relating to European defence policy. Also includes a programme for a visit to Sweden for a European conference, and arrangements for a meeting with Bill Keys, Chairman of the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee.

Includes: German press cuttings of NK’s visit to Berlin [Germany]; arrangements and briefing for NK’s meeting with Allan Boesak, South African United Democratic Front; notes on a request for sponsorship from "Jarrow 86".

Letters written by WN to friends and family from the Far East, Germany and Holland whilst interned during the First World War; notes describing the riots in Hankow, 1927; photographs of China.